Surface active agents manufacturing · Michigan

Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location

Byron Center, MI · ~60 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Surface active agents manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Surface active agents manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location safety composite

Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325613 · Byron Center, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK P27
  • PHOTO Kao Specialties Amer…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kao Specialties Americas LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Surface active agents manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=5 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location falls in its industry

66 Surface active agents manufact establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location (60 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location
Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location (60 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Applied Textiles, Inc. - Michigan Location has fewer employees than the Surface active agents manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 5.0 2.5 2 0 0
2023 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2022 5.5 2.7 2 0 0
2021 5.7 2.8 2 0 0
2020 5.0 0.0 2 0 0
2019 3.1 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.7 1.2 2 1 0
2017 3.9 0.0 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325613 · MI · Byron Center

66 Surface active agents manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 78 employers in Byron Center, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Kao Specialties Americas LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilot Chemical Company - Lockland 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR K2 Pure Solutions 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Verdant Specialty Solutions University Park 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Konos DBA Vande Bunte Eggs 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marquette Board of Light & Power 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamilton SC 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE VanDam & Krusinga Building and Restoration 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buist Electric 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lumbermen's Inc. Byron Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masterpiece Flower Company LLC 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Eerden Trucking 254 FTE
NAT-TCR Yaamava Resort and Casino at San Manuel 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PEW 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Murray Calloway County Public Hospital 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeside- EDCO 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alpine Village 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building 12 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parmenter, Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE OSullivan Plumbing, Inc. 60 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.